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Bryan Adams: The Ritz, New York City

Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 5 March 1992

THE BIRTH OF ROCK & ROLL WAS A messy business. With an instinctive need for communication that just couldn’t wait for formal language, the baby severed the generational cord with a joyous howl of freedom. But that was a long time ago.

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